I’ve sorted my LP collection, shucked out a dozen I will never listen to because they are just crap, right now I have on vol. 1 of the 1960 Aussie jazz festival. The other Ray Price https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUgQdJA3g0
Computer says nooo.
Computer is frozen and so am I.
I’m drinking, singing and dancing for warmth.
Eh. I’ve given in and paid much more than I wanted for a duplicate pair of Cotton On trackies from years ago. Because these days to keep trying to get a comfortable cheap pair without the opportunity to try them on is throwing good money after bad. 🙄
(That also allowed me to get a manual paper shredder on clearance - the noise of the motorised one is intolerable so it doesn’t get used.)
I got only one pair though because I will be going through and culling my clothes in an effort to find the other cheap ones I had… they can’t have walked off on their own. Also even if the $30 ones are quality Melbcat’s claws will pull out many threads before too long, or I’ll stain them. That’s why I buy cheap… Between the two of us nice things don’t last.
Pretty angry about it. I was happy with bare bones cotton basics until they became so ill fitting as to cause discomfort. You shouldn’t have to pay premium to have a usable item.
Even just the cost of basic groceries is obscene now
Sending some warm, muggy, late night love…
Man, it’s been years since I’ve spent time in the more chaotic parts of Asia. Favs atm are:
- A passenger on a scooter legit carrying a ladder upright.
- Gramps on his scooter living his best life riding at about 10kms an hour.
- Women riding scooters in PJ’s
I rode it scooter around Thailand. As it’s dangerous for tourists generally, I’d pick a grandma and potter along behind her through the chaos. Never had an issue.
I did, too, years ago.
Though checking in a hotel in Patong and watching a slight Japanese woman wheeled out in wheelchair after she broke both and and legs (face looked fine, luckily) on a scooter, should be enough to make some people think twice.
and nearly all are wearing sandals
Hooray in the middle of the crowdstrike crisis I bought w/e goon with real cash monies :) got a few dirty looks though from goonless people.
I got really lucky. I was able to get a script done for my kid AND pay with card at the Chemist Warehouse. Otherwise I wouldn’t have noticed at all
The Boys is such an accurate parody of The USA. It’s as if the writes are writing the election cycle
Funny and scary
Holy crap. That wind outside is really bad. Thought the gust was about to take my roof off.
I braved it to the city today and back with a mask on the whole time. The most weird thing has had to happen at the end. Tram driver swapped over at Barkers Rd and the new driver was saying things to himself while setting up, like “adjusting my seat” and “reaching out for the mirror” and I thought it was some cool.OH&S thing like the train drivers pointing and naming things in Japan.
Then he started mumbling to himself… “they said it was going to rain but it didn’t…” “look at how bright those lights are”… and he had this really sullen, angsty young look about him… and before I could hear what else he had to say I had to get off.
Where is the rain though, it’s been blowing plenty but not very wet. Not that I’m complaining
I think a major problem with DoorDash’s new drone delivery service is that it has to deliver to clear ground, which means you have to go outside to get your food, it won’t be right at your door. If they really want to provide a good service they need to have drones that can open the door, come inside and drop off direct to your lounge chair or bed. Or maybe the robo vac could be taught to multi-task and meet up with the drone for the final delivery leg?
My old housemates brother delivered for the local pizza place. He had a spare key. We could get pizzas delivered to our bedrooms.
Roombutler, I wouldn’t mind that. Fetch the
newspapersdirty bird for me, Jeeves
Good one
This is my favourite of Santana’s.
Smooth featuring Rob Thomas.
I forgot about this song. So good!
Agree. I love Santana. I love Whitey. ♥
Windy. Had to brave the outside to trim some branches that the wind was blowing against the bedroom window. I considered if I could put up with it and do it tomorrow, but no, too annoying. In bed with electric blanket on now. Cosy.
So question: when you have to rate something that doesn’t apply, do you give it a 5 or 3 star? eBay always asks me to rate seller communication, which is almost never relevant. They mark it as posted, and that’s generally the extent of the “communication”. I have been marking that as 3 stars, but I was thinking, that probably brings down their averages, right? I’d be annoyed if my feedback rate went from 100 to 99.97% because someone thought something was irrelevant.
Seems like a bit of a disconnect between how I issue ratings and how I take ratings into account. All this online review stuff seems to have skewed the bare minimum rating from a 3. i.e I probably wouldn’t consider a shop or seller that’s only rated 3 stars, even though in my mind, 3 stars means neutral, when it comes to reviews, 3 stars seems bad
I always had this problem with peer rated assignments. Other people were rating absolutely everything 9/10 and I was giving honest 7 for good but nothing special. I looked mean, and thought them incapable of critical thinking…
5 stars. That’s the default.
The logic to US companies is backwards to us. We think of it as earning your stars. And yeah, 3 is kinda average. Not bad, not great.They think of it as 5 stars is normal. Perfect every time. You lose points for imperfections.
Example: An Uber driver would lose their job at around 4.1 average rating. So after your trip, you can say 5 stars (normal) or anything else (fire this driver).
It’s stupid, and completely ruins the point of a rating scale. Plus, it’s also not really compatible with Australian culture. We would think 4 stars is good. 3 stars is ok.
@stepchook @Nath @Baku yes this is infuriating in many of the sharing/gig economy areas, and it’s definitely Aussie culture but also many others, US is actually the cultural outlier here.
To the point that I basically will never allow French people in Airbnb because they ALWAYS rate low.
I don’t bother with ebay or amazon ratings, it’s fake
but personal stuff, I choose what I read or watch very carefully so very often it really is excellent
quizzes, I’m older and I have thought through nearly everything so I’m definite on a lot of things, for instance I’m adamant on tolerance
This is why I just don’t trust star reviews - it’s not only just because of fake/paid responses. There’s a whole science about this sort of dissonance in perception when it comes to rating reviews etc. It happens to everybody - my personal description for it is questionnaire bias. I’ve never had a questionnaire or a rating review where my actual opinions and experiences were accurately reflected in the questions/ratings. My advice fwiw is just not to stress over it. Everyone has a different take on what ‘excellent’ means to them. For some it might be that delivery on the day specified is enough for that rating - some might consider that just normal and ‘excellent’ might consist of much more than that like good and timely service on a return/refund as well.
To get points for the team in the fitness challenge I’m doing, they asked us to leave a review. Now of course people are going to leave five star reviews to kiss the butts of the owners, and so they’re not looked down upon by people in the gym.
But they could also just be enjoying their experience and felt compelled to share.
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Asafoetida powder?
The thing I’m looking forward to the most is moving into a place that has insulation.
It’s truly amazing
Wot ‘e sed 👆🏻
is your current place far from your new job? and is the new job close to where you’d want to live?
New job is in the city. Current place is pretty far, near Werribee.
I have a house to myself for a bit more than what I’d pay for 2 or 3 bed apartment closer to the city and civilisation. That’s the only real draw. A house compared to an apartment.
But I need to be around people and this area is dead.
dont know if you’ve ever checked it out, but fairfield is pretty great. Or at least it used to be. Close enough for a cheap uber to the city or fitzroy without paying fitzroy prices. It might’ve got a bit more expensive since i left though.
Cold and wimdy 🥶
